This could have been so much better with a better script. The characters, while somewhat likable, are irritating because they are constantly fighting against each other and throwing f-bombs throughout the whole film. Two of the characters are likely to party with drugs and alcohol, but eventually all partake. The only good parts were the flashbacks of the father (who I thought was the most interesting character and I would like to have seen more about him) and the lost sister. The effects showing them and the children were decently done but not that scary. There is a high level of tension that makes the film uneasy to watch. And when it's over you feel it wasn't worth it in the long run.
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bobquack21 April 2019
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Our final psychology assignment of the year....at a neutral location!!!!!
Okay so there's a little bit of experiment....
Then theres a mountain of blow and long extended scenes of drug use.....
-1 Star for the mountain of drug use.....
Ooo then we get a Rumor Willis strip tease and some on top of the clothes lezbian action. Throw in a guy for a little orgy start.... This is what drugs do...yes , yes they sometimes do!!!!
-1 Star for who wears that kinda of underwear to the final psychology assignment of the year??? lol....and who brings that amount of dope????
Hey at least the girls are still in their underwear and ready for action when the haunting type stuff begins!!!
Looks like they brought plenty of whiskey to drink as well to their 'experiment'...
I like when the 1 guy accuses the other guy of snorting too much blow when he's trying to take advantage of one of the girls who snorted just as much if not more.... that's style and class right there.....
then Lucky wakes up and starts snorting more blow while her nose is still bleeding from the last round...
-1 Star for when girl starts really losing her ....mind...well what is left of it after all the dope she's on....
How they got a couple of decent actors for the scenes at the end I'll never know... but the damage is already done....and the detectives....boy they still got some bad lines.....
What a horrible, stinking, pile of excrement.
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spikerags-649-70272214 April 2014I didn't go into this film expecting it to be an amazing film, but I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. For starters, the picture on the case (a big building that looks like an asylum of some sort) and the synopsis on the back of the case, did not match the setting or the events of the film. Secondly, the film had a very tenuous link to the Ganzfeld experiments, certainly not one big enough to justify having the film supposedly revolve around them. Another thing is the plot was very empty, to the point that 20 minutes of two teenage girls (who have an inexplicably large amount of cocaine) having sex-but-not-quite was needed to try and keep the audience at all interested, when really it served no purpose and added nothing to the film. There are no twists in the film, no surprises and no interesting new ideas. There was a gratuitous amount of plot holes and very forced, unnatural situations, even for a world where the 'paranormal' is real. If you don't take my word for how bad this film is, be sure to watch it anyway, that way you'll find out first hand just how abysmal it really is.
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wormsoftheerth9 February 2014This movie had about 20 minutes worth of potential substance, padded with 60 minutes of absolutely useless filler. It starts out with some kids attempting some kind of ESP experiment in a seemingly abandoned house. For a while I thought it had potential, but quickly realized I had made a grave miscalculation. Right from the get go we are thrust into the middle of the story with no explanation or background given whatsoever. After about 20 minutes of throwing random images and dialog at the viewer in hopes of building up a creepy and mystic atmosphere (scenes of the first stages of the experiment) I guess the producers were like "ok well dang...that's all we got" and then scrambled to find another hours worth of footage to use so they could call this a film. The bulk of the remainder of the movie is softcore porn and nonstop shots of people doing cocaine. Like, they literally do at least 50 lines of coke in the span of one day. After a few minutes of this it becomes painfully obvious that the concept of a film has been thrown out the window in favor of endless cheap sleaze. The majority of the film felt like a clichéd, unimaginative music video without direction (oh, they even play some really annoying dubstep for a while over unnecessary scenes of partying). Ultimately there is NO point to this movie whatsoever and I have no idea why they even bothered to make it. No story, no character development, nothing. There are very few scenes which have anything to do with the supposed plot; most of which were comprised of choppy "visions", super cheesy ghost...sister...thing(still not sure what that was about and don't care enough to find out), and some convoluted voice-over meant to sound deep while attempting to mask the complete lack of genuine depth or plot. Do not waste your time unless you're just looking for footage of teens partying. The people in charge of this film (writer, director) need to move to another profession as they seem to have a gross lack of understanding as to what a movie is.
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tgbldkam4 April 2020I like to watch bad movies for these reasons, these type of train wreck films are fun and the film might turn out to be a delightful gem. I didn't have fun watching Ganzfeld nor is it a delightful gem.
The bad films I have seen at least try to have an interesting story. Even how bad the director is at least he or she tried to create a creative piece of work.
The Director of Ganzfeld didn't give a hoot about creativity. Furthermore, he and the screenwriter didn't know what type of movie this was suppose to be.
This film came across as a mixture of paranormal slasher stoner soft core .
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Ringhio827 February 2014The dear d b user said pretty much everything. I absolutely agree with him and want to congratulate him for having the patience to write so many things for this meaningless and total crap of a "film." A film with no reason to be made from the start. Nothing worth seeing on this garbage. Except for those who like to see naked or almost naked girls, make out and stuff. Something you see in hundreds of movies. Taylor Cole, is an absolutely gorgeous and very sexy woman to lay your eyes on, and one of my personal favorites, but she didn't have to underestimate herself and star in this total trash of a movie just to earn some money. She has potentials to gain money with her looks and her acting skills, even though on this one, she doesn't show them at all.
A "marriage" between the classic plot with a group of teens/students who go for a holiday to have "fun" by smoking joint, snorting cocaine, giving lesbian kisses,and supernatural figures and ghosts. Just to laugh at and get angry at the creators, who totally insult your intelligence.
I respect and applaud any effort in low budget movies and new ideas. But this one is an absolute failing attempt on combining 2 different themes, and also sticking to one theme either. And also is one from the many similar movies we constantly see and has nothing to offer. Absolutely nothing, in my opinion.
Well it might have one thing. For people who may suffer from insomnia, will probably help them to sleep, and actually enjoy their sleep.
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Michael-Hallows-Eve18 February 2014Well, after seeing the trailer for this, I was hoping it would be at least decent - well I was wrong. Rumer Willis is almost naked from the start, which in my opinion she didn't need to be. Yes she has a good body, but her acting ability isn't that good. There's a lot of clichés in the film, girl kisses girl, scantily dressed women, a sex scene, and plot clichés to boot. Don't get me wrong, almost nude women isn't a bad thing, but in the right context. When the story line doesn't need it, then don't do it (although some classic horror uses it a lot, the operative word here being "classic", this will never be). The plot is quite weak, they use an actual experiment name in the title to hook people in, but the film didn't really need it as the plot could have been about a group of young people who go to a house to see if there are ghosts there. But I guess they were trying to make it "original", yet they failed. Very disappointed by this movie. All I can give it is 1 out of 10.
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tjones-2879718 October 2020The dumbest movie I've ever saw! Demi Moore daughter looked terrible and dirty! Most of the movie focuses on drugs and boney girls dancing around looking stupid and dirty! I couldn't believe how many times they showed these actors doing drugs! Next time, read a book instead of settling on this movie! Not worth it. I will take my own advice. I watched it all the way through hoping for some sort of twist at least! But nothing! Just drugs and bad acting! What a waste of time
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amymay-6991611 October 2023Is the only reason i rated thus as high as i did,because obviously she can act. But this script must have been done as a favor to a friend because it was all cocaine and crotches. I don't even know why the plot played out as it did,with a murderer being uncovered,but was the murderer truly even evil or was he being used by a predator? How a 8-12 year old can have such a profound gap of knowledge,even with trauma, was confusing. The unprofessionalism and incompetence of the law enforcement officers was the crap icing on this crap cake. It's too late for me--i can't unsee this. But you still have time to save yourself. Skip this turd.
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I gave this 3* 'cause the actual, real acting is (shockingly) acceptable. Not to mention that the idea for the film could have had potential. But, my god! At the end of the day, you can imagine that the film was made after a drunken, drugged up weekend where someone said, "THIS should be a movie! I'd watch it!" 🙄
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TheElz19 April 2023Using equipment from a #banned 1950s test, a group of students conduct a series of psychological experiments into telepathy, with horrorific consequences.
Miscast bruce willis daughter rumer willis is the "hot" party girl and serious college girl taylor cole who has a nosejob and teeth whitened.
No 50s equipment used, just a tape recorder and early 2000 #videocamera and a late 90s laptop, using standard esp tests, from 1 room to another guessing cards, the screens flicker with images of different stuff (which was the idea of the experiment, no equipment needed for it!).
People snort about a kilo of cocaine over a day during the experiment and a bottle of whisky and some boring lesbian sex and get even more arsey and paranoid.
Maybe less drugs sex and booze with people you don't like?
Are you wondering why this is bad? Because it is just a mess. Miscast, no logic, bad story even he sex scenes are boring.
Its a struggle to watch. And I watch a LOT of low budget films.
Director michael oblowitz did a lot on this film, being producer, writer and sound designer too.
One to avoid that fella.
I like bad films, but boring is the one sin, no matter budget that I cannot forgive.
Watched on amazon prime as The ganzfeld possession the ganzfeld haunting Whatever name, this is 90 mins of cringy boredom. -
TdSmth59 April 2014Four students are working on their final psychology project for class. They are Becket (apparently a girl's name)- the nerdy girl, Eliot- the nerdy guy in charge of the technology, Graves- a jerk, and Lucky- a girl jerk who thinks she's hot but isn't. They chose to do a parapsychological Ganzfeld experiment in an old abandoned house with a furnace problem that belongs to Becket's family. In the Ganzfeld experiment as performed by them, a receiver is placed in a room with a red light wearing white goggles and headphones that play white noise. In another room is the sender and everyone else. Pictures of playing cards are randomly presented on a screen, the sender articulates the kind of card and tries to send the image of the card mentally to the receiver who is then supposed to receive the communication telepathically and make it become visible on screens in the other room.
For the first 30 minutes these people just bicker and give each other a hard time. Lucky immediately pulls out a bag of cocaine and she and Graves do nothing but snort it. Initially not much happens with the experiment, but then Graves as a receiver sees and hears his father, and also some little girl. Next Becket takes the seat as a receiver and she starts seeing and hearing all sorts of nasty things including a murder, she writes down the word "sisters" on a paper and it freaks out everybody because they are seeing the images on screen. She calls her mom to confirm that she doesn't have any sister because now she has a feeling that the girl that's appearing is her sister indeed. The mom confirms she has no sisters but isn't very convincing.
At this point most movies would have continued in this vein, with things going downhill and becoming bloody. Instead here, now with everybody freaked out they start drinking, smoking pot, doing coke. Becket and Eliot lose their inhibitions and she starts fooling around with Lucky in a fairly erotic scene, which could be even hotter had they cast someone else as Lucky. But when things are getting interesting, the creepy girl interrupts things. Again everybody freaks out. They do more drugs. Becket finally hooks up with Eliot. She then goes back to the receiver room and sees a revelation. Turns out that these 4 were friends as kids already. Well, there were 5 if we include Becket's sister who was murdered. And the surprise is who killed her and why. Naturally she flips out. In the morning the cops arrive.
By the reviews and scores on IMDb you would think this movie is the worst. And things don't start out well. There are some editing problems initially and I just can't stand watching a group of people confined in a small space screaming at each other. But it manages to turn itself around and improve. Granted, to make use of time they give us tons of repetitive scenes of the kids taking cocaine. They should have focused a bit more on the girl, and the childhood scenes instead. Acting is good all around. Taylor Cole is lovely and it's great to see her in a sexy role. Direction is very good. This movie could easily have been a complete disaster. Movies that stick just to people going crazy without any interesting reality outside their minds make for awful movies. But the fact that it goes beyond just the madness and gives us some reality, namely the lives of them as kids and the murder years ago makes it far more interesting. Some questions remain after it's all over. And usually that doesn't work for me. But here it does because it's not like we are given no explanation for what happened, instead we get several possible explanations or a combinations of them. Was it the drugs, was it a gas leak, both perhaps that account for what happened? This movie got me involved, starting with the erotic scenes and even the psychological aspect was very well done. The movie looks and sounds very good. While it does have the usual jarring sounds and editing at times, they could have gone with the usual bleak gray/blue look as so many do, instead they went with natural saturated colors which don't remove the audience but involves it instead. Overall this movie is a success despite what others here claim. -
robfollower18 September 2020Four college students uncover a murderous connection to their pasts when they perform an experiment in ESP and telepathy.
Very hot and sexy women!!! It had too much drug use for me but I love Taylor Cole!! And Rumer Willis is pretty and alluring too. Studio: Screen Media Darkside Director: Michael Oblowitz Writer: Michael Oblowitz, Caroline Doreen Victoria Riley, Theodore Gildred III Producer: Michael Oblowitz, Salome Breziner, Hani Selim Stars: Taylor Cole, Ryan Donowho, Toby Hemingway, Rumer Willis, Laura Wiggins, Billy Zane, Holt McCallany, Dominic Purcell
A ganzfeld experiment is a technique that uses sensory deprivation to test participants for ESP or telepathic abilities. "The Ganzfeld Haunting" is a movie that uses sensory deprivation to test if a viewer's eyes, ears, and brain can still function after being repeatedly dulled for 82 minutes.
The visual attack is led by pointless camera shots of arbitrary things like water dripping off a soap dish or unmotivated focus racks between a girl's face and droplets on a shower door. The aural assault comes by way of nonsensical babbling from ghostly narration or impossibly annoying dialogue where every poorly written sentence is padded with a half-dozen f-bombs.
Four college students assemble in an abandoned house that is supposed to be creepy because random swaths of wallpaper are torn into dangling strips and innumerable holes are punched into every wall. For a class project, their plan is some ridiculousness about wearing noise-cancelling headphones and goofy goggles to see if thinking really hard can psychically transmit images into another person's mind. Or whatever qualifies as a mind for these brainless borefests. Mentioning anything more about the plot would be useless since the script cares less than anyone about it. "The Ganzfeld Haunting" is so interested in showing nostrils hoovering up cocaine like it is backstage at Lollapalooza that anything remotely approaching actual character development is sucked into the same drug-induced haze of senselessness.
A short ways into "The Ganzfeld Haunting," I planned on taking a screenshot of every time someone snorted a line of coke to illustrate how ridiculously excessive the instances are. Before the movie had a chance to reach its midpoint, I realized that doing so would take countless hours, and enough time was already wasted by an empty experience. Had I gone through with the idea, I would have ended up with enough still images to recreate virtually the entire film in flipbook form.
Incredibly, three names are credited for drafting the screenplay. It is a hysterical notion that any one writer needed two more people to collaborate on the creation of scenes summarized by the simple description, "Generic Character A sticks a rolled bill in his/her nose and inhales a mound of blow... again."
Softcore scenes of Rumer Willis and Taylor Cole tease a lesbian romance for no purpose other than excusing a purely panty-clad back half of the runtime in hopes that male viewers might dislike the movie less. Sadly, this shameless sex appeal is the only tolerable distraction in an otherwise unnoticeable mess of a movie. Now a turned-on audience can feel as embarrassed as the actors about being fooled into "The Ganzfeld Haunting."
More interesting than the movie's fictional story is whatever behind-the-scenes blackmail took place to pool Willis, Cole, Billy Zane, Dominic Purcell, and other recognizable names into a project that is guaranteed to remain unlisted on the back of everyone's headshot. Flashes of static-filled imagery with no meaningful context constitute the movie's idea of how to convey horror. Blood-dripping faucets and randomly slamming doors pass for shallow scares. Irredeemable as art and as entertainment, "The Ganzfeld Haunting" is an insultingly disastrous way to spend an hour and a half, and a dangerous way to dumb down one's own senses. -
latonpowers27 October 2021This movie could have been better if the writing and dialogue were better. And the constant drug use is obnoxious. And the acting is pretty horrible. Guess the premise had potential. The execution was horrible.
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llsmith-8718217 December 2020A poorly organized and presented plot of some merit and interest. Drugs and alcohol are waaaay overdone and thus distracting. Cole is credible and since the others are so weak she seems to be out of place.
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nataliya-kochergova16 July 2014I felt the story idea had potential, but wasn't well-executed. A group of psychology students meet in an abandoned house to see if telepathy is possible under specific conditions. Lucky (Rumer Willis) brings a bag of cocaine, which some of the students start snorting right away, without considering how it would affect their psychological study results. When they do actually start with the study, the paranormal stuff starts happening with barely any buildup, making it unscary and boring. It freaks them out, so they decide to drink, smoke weed, snort cocaine and make out to ease the tension. After that, they experience creepy visions. A Gothic ghost girl tells the main girl Becket (Taylor Cole) to avenge her (they are apparently sisters), and Becket stabs the ghost girl's real killer to death. The cops arrive after a while, and discover everyone dead, except for Becket. They also finally discover the murder weapon the ghost girl was murdered with, and I suppose that means the ghost accomplished what she came for.
The ghost revenge plot wasn't exciting, but it could have been. Wouldn't it be cool if we were never quite sure if there is a ghost, or they are all just suffering from group delusion caused by drugs, sleep deprivation and expectations created by their experiment? At least to me, people killing each other from paranoia/OD'ing would be more disturbing than a ghost plot. And adding uncertainty only makes it more thrilling. However, what the movie lacked in story, it compensated for by sexy scenes between Rumer Willis and Taylor Cole (and sometimes Ryan Donowho). At least they did that right. -
morrigan198219 February 2014A team of psychology students go to a deserted house to run an experiment. They where teamed up by their professor and they don't seem to like each other much. But they have to work together even if their feelings for each other start getting in the way.
Their experiment has to do with sleep deprivation. During their experiments they loose the touch between past, present and future. They don't know what is real and what is not. Why the past is haunting them and how it affects the future.
The movie is not bad. It has some interesting ideas and some small twists. But in overall it is not good either. Also
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Part 1 of my review is spoiler free, then part 2 have spoilers and i warn you when they start, so if you want spoiler free just read the first part.
I always loved Taylor Cole, ever since i saw her for the first time as a teen in that show call Summerland. I dunno, i had a major crush on her at the time and since she has not done that much over the years, especially in the type of movies or TV shows i like...well when i stumble across a movie where she is present a lot (unlike The Green Hornet where i didn't even knew she was in until i read her name) i have to watch it.
Thats why i watched that cheap slasher flick called April's Fool Day which was pretty bad and today this one. Oh what can i say about this movie? Well its about some kind of experiment that supposed to be link to paranormal, and then some ghost elements are thrown into the mix. Sadly the movie fail on every level. The plot is incoherent and boring, the movie is not even scary what so ever. The set and cinematography is so low budget it can't come close to scare anybody, either with atmosphere or jump scares. The music is also pretty bad for the few there is...
It consist mainly of the cast sniffing coke during the entire movie, to a point where even Tony Montana would had been impressed. After a start with some potential there is a sexy scene where the girls danced in there underwear and start making out that literally change the whole thing for the worst, believe it or not. Now i don't want to look ungrateful, Taylor and Rummer in there underwear for the majority of he movie sound pretty good at first, but thats like the only redeeming factor of the movie. Don't expect nudity tough, there is nothing visible.
Spoiler ahead. Spoiler ahead !!!! The rest have Spoilers !!
Oh well i wanted to write this review spoiler free, but never mind i will just click the box and say it. When the sexy scene happen, the movie become just a continuity of Rummer walking naked in the house, Taylor receiving oral sex and an incoherent mess of a story trying to cram itself into it. It try to somehow be clever, as in does Taylor's character is the one killing them, is this in her head, does they die of overdose, does there really the ghost of her long lost forgotten murdered sister, well we don't know. We got a scene at the end with Dominic Purcell making a cameo that pretty much explain they either died of asphyxia or the drugs. Even tough we see Taylor's character stab one of the dude, his body is not bloody or anything when the cops discover it. So as the audience we tend to go with the police reasoning, but then the "ghost" of the sister still voice over to the end credit... it kinda try to make us doubt. The problem is the way its presented. The movie barely kept me in with the sexy parts, and i think most of the budget got to the girls paycheck. The rest is uninteresting.
I think it sum everything up. I am not asking to watch a masterpiece of a movie when i watch something for Taylor. I would be satisfied with a college humour flick or something like that. But this movie barely escape the "ridiculously bad low budget" on the sole reason the blood parts are almost non existent except a couple rare scenes. Still does not save it from a mess of a story and cheap sets. -
Very hot and sexy women!!! It had too much drug use for me but I love Taylor Cole!! And Rumer Willis is pretty and alluring too. And it had some scary scenes. I do love horror movies but sometimes they don't always have to be the best when you have the right actors and connections.
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fluffchop3 April 2021The movie is unusual and entertaining. It's easy to watch as you wonder what will happen next. The story unfolds in a slow but atmospheric manner. In the end everything is revealed.